Burkina Faso Floods
In 2009 Burkina Faso faced its worst flooding for ninety years with 90,000 people forced from their homes seeking shelter with the capital Ouagadougou and its environs being hardest hit even forcing its main hospital, Yalgado, to close after much of it was destroyed after a nearby dam burst its banks.
Some idea of the extent of the floods can be realised by the fact that the city received one quarter of its entire annual rainfall in the space of just a couple of hours.
However the rainy season of 2010 was to bring yet more misery to an estimated 100,000 people in Burkina Faso with many communities cut off from aid and food supplies. Even before the end of the rainy season the floods in Burkina Faso had caused extensive damage to roads, schools, bridges, health facilities and other infrastructure.
The heavy rains towards the end of July also caused dams to burst flooding fifty villages and ruining much needed crops. Ironically other parts of the country are still gripped in an extreme drought that has also affected harvests.
This video documentary explores the Burkina Faso floods of 2010.
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